1910 Witches
Truly cool. Early century folks dressed up as witches. Old timey pix. Worth looking at. Of course I love everything witchy. http://sexywitch.wordpress.com/2010/11/01/fourteen-halloween-witches-ca-1910/
Year: 2012
More Gunn Allen Greatness Feeding the Ontology Section of my Dissertation
“But the oral tradition has prevented the complete destruction of the web, the ultimate disruption of tribal ways. The oral tradition is vital: it heals itself and the tribal web by adapting to the flow of the present while never relinquishing its connection tot he past. Its adaptability has always been required, as many generations… Read More
Channeled sumthang funny
It’s almost ten and I’m working my little butt off trying to get my dissertation work done and I’ve done really well considering the two half pints yesterday, and working monday today, and I’m feeling all good about myself and as I sit all smuggy while the writing actually is flowing – which is rare… Read More
What if we couldn’t see a freakin supernova?
American Indian writer Vine Deloria, Jr. describes the Western conceptions of a static homogenous understanding of time and a uniform operation of nature as a belief so virulent that explanations of natural events have been forced into this ideological pattern even when the facts were obviously otherwise. In God is Red: A Native View of… Read More
Fallacies or Fantasies
In Indigenous cultures myth is a complementary religious element to ritual. Unlike in a Western worldview, in which myths are considered fallacies or fantasies that are opposed to linear fact, myths are accounts of actual interchanges between ancestors and other relevant persons accessed through ritual. Gunn Allen makes the distinction that the symbolism in tribal… Read More
My Altar
This is where I write my diss. There are lots of spirit people about as you can see. Click it if you wanna come into my world of a lot of talking ancestors.
Dissertation Quote
In Pueblo Gods and Myths, Hamilton A. Tyler asks, “Why do the Pueblos still dance? For whom do they dance? What do they mean by their dancing?” His examination of previous research revealed an obvious and conventionally satisfying answer: “For rain.” His response sheds light on the biased Western perspective in regard to Indigenous traditions,… Read More
Traffic Jam
When I get stuck in my writing it is because i have a traffic jam of thought in my head. But it is very hard to remember everything I have read and absorbed and very hard to be clear all the time of how it all comes together as a holism. Linear as this is,… Read More
Deep Mining
Ok, this is what I am going to call “deep mining.” I have to “get” the connection between methodology, epistemology, ontology, axiology and the academic art of interpretation. Interpretation means who gets to decide on the narrative, who gets to decide on which version of the story guides the people, is relevant in the minds… Read More